Title for Season 5, Episode 9 (probably) revealed
And the leaks just keep on coming. Along with the two clips from “Kill the Boy” that leaked this morning, we also got what seems to be the title of Episode 509. Stop reading now if you don’t want to be spoiled.
Last night, a clever redditor posted a link to a page on HBO’s website with information on Episode 9 of Season 5. What was printed between the “episodeTitle” brackets? “THE DANCE OF DRAGONS.”
“The Dance of Dragons” is a reworking of “A Dance with Dragons,” the title of the most recently released book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series. If this is the title of the episode, it’s appropriately ambitious. As anybody who shudders involuntarily whenever they hear the words “Red Wedding” can attest, Episode 9 is usually earmarked for especially big events. Given the dragon reference, smart money says that this episode will feature Drogon paying a visit to Daznak’s Pit, a critical scene from the books. We’ve already glimpsed the scene in the pit in a promo for Season 5 and gotten a sneak peak at the resulting chaos in some behind-the-scenes pics. Things are gonna get messy.
The other option is that the episode will be about the Dance of the Dragons, a civil war of succession that raged throughout Westeros over a hundred years before the events depicted on the show. That doesn’t seem terribly likely, though.
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